Oh, blimey! Have you heard about what happened to social media giant X (you know, the one that used to be Twitter)? It was a bit of a kerfuffle last Thursday – the site went down for just over an hour. Imagine that!
Downdetector.com, which keeps tabs on these sorts of things, said that a whopping 47,000 folks in the US had a bit of a bother getting onto X and X Pro. And it wasn’t just the Yanks – some of us here in the UK and over in Asia had a spot of trouble too. There was this message saying “Welcome to X!” but that was about it.
The big cheese at X, Elon Musk (he bought Twitter last year for a cool $44 billion, or £35 billion), hasn’t said much about it yet. Right after it happened, everyone started talking about it using the hashtag #TwitterDown. But, thank goodness, it didn’t last long. Just a bit over an hour and it was all back to normal.
Ever since Mr. Musk took over, there have been some rumblings about the platform losing ad revenue. And there’s been a bit of a to-do about some antisemitic posts appearing next to ads. In fact, X’s got itself in a legal tangle with Media Matters for America, a group that pointed this out.
Last month, Mr. Musk had a bit of a go at advertisers who ditched X, warning them they might be the end of the platform. And that’s not all – the EU’s got its eye on X too, suspecting it might be playing fast and loose with rules about illegal content and spreading misinformation. What a palaver, eh?
